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Serendipity January Blog Hop!

Posted on January 20, 2016 12:00 AM by Julie 30 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity January Blog Hop! We are showing off a fabulous new Balloon die & featuring some fun birthday images along with it! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first. This is also for the Featured Stamper (FS468). Congrats to Michele! I chose THIS to case. I kept the bright colors & birthday & balloons theme, but I used a large reverse die and sponged on my background.

The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday January 24 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win. Mary will announce a winner on Monday January 25. Each month a different image is 50% off. This month- it’s the Party Background. The special for the hop is free shipping on all US orders of $15 or more good January 20 -24. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps! On the third Wednesday of every month., we’ll be celebrating with a Blog Hop! For another chance to win, be sure to play along with our monthly challenge. You can get all the details on the challenge HERE.

To make my very sparkly birthday card, I first die cut two layers out of white using two of the matting basics. Then the Party Balloons Reverse die was die cut in the smaller layer. On the larger layer, I used Distress inks to sponge on the different colors then attached the balloon layer on top. I also sponged one big balloon cut out and the Happy die and attached them. The Party Bg was stamped across a narrow strip using the Kaleidacolor ink & the Birthday was stamped on top. I added stickles to the Happy & the one balloon on top and used a clear Wink of Stella on the other balloons. Since we’re combining the hop w/ the monthly Challenge of Stripes, my colors were put on in stripes (or wide bands) and the Party Bg on the strip is a stripe format.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps –Party Background, Happy Birthday

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Distress Inks in squeezed lemonade, ripe persimmon, worn lipstick, candied apple, peacock feathers. twisted citron, cracked pistachio; Kaliedacolor Caribbean sea, Versafine onyx

Accessories: Serendipity Happy & Party Balloon Reverse dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, stickles, Wink of Stella

Now I’ll send you on to Karen’s blog..I’m sure she’ll have something fabulous to show you! Please be sure to visit all of the DT Blogs to increase your chance of winning! Here’s the order in case you get lost.

Mary’s Blog

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner (you are here!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Snowflake Birthday

Posted on January 6, 2016 7:17 PM by Julie 2 Comments

This is for a couple of Splitcoast challenges..Color (CC564) & Sketch (SC574). Love these colors & looking through my stash, I found I have a whole bunch of backgrounds made with the blue/green combo…really one of my favorite combos. So I took one I made on a lg tag & cut it down & added some of the sand color in the bg for the color challenge. For the sketch, the only thing different is mine is the mirror image & it’s only that because the card front was upside down when I attached the vertical panel, so I had to reverse everything. Go ahead & laugh…like you’ve never glued anything upside down, lol.

The med & lg snowflakes were stamped onto white, die cut & added to larger circle layers. For the sand bg, I stamped the snowflake bg all over using the sand ink then just a few flakes here & there w/ the white ink. The tag that I used for the vertical panel was done w/ a kind of modified Wrinkle Free Distress technique & I added just a bit of the Brilliance on top for a little shimmer.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Interlocking Snow Bg, Snow Doubt Birthday, Med. Filigree Snowflake, Lg. Filigree Snowflake, (Birthday Wishes -inside)

Paper: Neenah white, cucumber crush, Pacific Point & Sahara sand clones, manilla tag

Ink: Kaleidacolor fresh greens, Distress inks mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass, twisted citron, Brilliance platinum planet, Memento tuxedo black & desert sand, Colorbox frost white pigment

Accessories: Spellbinders pierced A2 matting basics A & B, circles & pennant dies, ODBD flourished star pattern die, kraft sheet, fine mister

This entry was posted in Birthday DRS Designs Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges and tagged Birthday DRS Designs snow snowflakes Spellbinders Splitcoast

ODBD January Release Blog Hop!

Posted on January 1, 2016 7:58 AM by Julie 54 Comments

Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs January Release! We have some beautiful images & fabulous dies for you this month! They will have y’all “Wishing” you already had them!

For my first Wishing card, I came across this white piece already embossed w/ the oval frame & thought it would work as a backdrop. I die cut 3 of each size of Aster then sponged 1 of each size w/ the stonewashed ink. The two little flowers are from the Bird & Nest dies & were already in my stash, so I sponged & curled them. The centers for all flowers were made by cutting a strip of white (about 1/2″ wide) & using fringing scissors all down one side (be careful not to cut all the way to the other edge). Then take tweezers or a quilling tool & roll. The longer your strip, the bigger around it will be. Add a drop of glue to the end & remove the tweezers & fluff a little. Then I sponged just the tips & added them to the flower centers.

I added white leaves & fronds from the other dies, then die cut one white Stitched Oval & one plain Oval out of the blue designer paper. I used the denim ink to stamp the Wishing on the oval & also the rest of the greeting on a separate piece I die cut using the Double Stitched Rectangles & Rectangles.

Here’s a look at the inside:

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Wishing Words, (Wishing Well – inside)

Paper: Neenah white, designer paper (ODBD – Christian Faith collection)

Ink: Adirondack denim & stonewashed

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Asters (retired), Pretty Posies, Lovely Leaves, Rectangles, Double Stitched Rectangles, Ovals, Stitched Ovals (retired), Birds & Nest (small flowers) (retired) dies, fringing scissors (Martha Stewart), Sizzix embossing folder (bird & wreath set)

I am adding the above card to Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes!

My second Wishing card features this wonderful Wishing Well set & the Wishing die. There are so many different greetings for just about any occasion using this set & the Wishing Words set. Add the Wishing die, & you are able to cover a multitude of occasions & always have the perfect card!

For me, it’s a little challenging to use so much brown on an image. Of course, you can color the stones any color you wish, but I’m always up for a challenge. So I used a lot of different browns so it wouldn’t all run together. And I used the blender pen to add the mottled look on the stones. After I colored it all in, I over stamped w/ the Versafine (the image was still in my Misti) then die cut it using the Circles & Double Stitched Circles. I sponged the vintage photo ink lightly around the edge of the image circle then put it back inside the stitched circle. For the white Pegboard background, I used my resizing technique to make a long rectangle die cut out of a square die then added the Double Stitched frame out of the designer paper on top. The Wishing die was cut twice & stacked for dimension.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

(To explain the browns..I used the E13, E15, E19 on the roof of the well. E55, E57, E59, N2 & N4 for the beams. E30, E31, E35, E37, W1, W4, W5, W7 for the stone.)

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Wishing Well, (Living Water, Wishing Words –inside)

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, designer paper (ODBD – Vintage Ephemera )

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx & sepia, distress ink vintage photo (for sponging)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Rectangles, Double Stitched Rectangles, Ovals, Stitched Ovals, Circles, Double Stitched Circles, Pegboard dies, Copic markers, Misti

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Wishing Well	Wishing Words ICS61-139	Living Water	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122
Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136	Circles dies CBD142	Ovals dies CBD112	Pierced Ovals dies CBD172
Pegboard dies	Pretty Posies dies CBD108	Foliage & Leaves dies	Christian Faith paper	Leaves & Branches dies CBD225
Vintage Label dies CBD55	Vintage Ephemera	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Memento Inks
Adirondack dye inks	Sizzix Bird/Wreath embossing folders 657086	Fringe Scissors	VersaFine Inkpads	Distress Inks
X-Press It Blending Card	Neenah Classic Crest white